Laura Hernández-Hurtado, Jacinto Gomes, Luisa Pereira, Maria João Vila-Viçosa, Carlos Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez
{"title":"First report of Hexametra angusticaecoides Chabaud & Brygoo, 1960 (Nematoda: Ascarididae) in a population of captive central bearded dragons, Pogona vitticeps Ahl (Squamata: Agamidae).","authors":"Laura Hernández-Hurtado, Jacinto Gomes, Luisa Pereira, Maria João Vila-Viçosa, Carlos Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez","doi":"10.1007/s11230-024-10202-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-024-10202-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Between 2022 and 2023 ascaridoid nematodes of the genus Hexametra were recovered from two captive central bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps Ahl) in the Extremadura region of Spain. These nematodes were identified by an integrative approach combining morpho-anatomical and molecular data. We used two rRNA regions (D2-D3 expansion segments of the 28S, and ITS fragments), and the partial region of the cytochrome oxidase I gene (COI mtDNA) sequences. Hexametra angusticaecoides Chabaud & Brygoo, 1960 (Ascarididae) was morphologically characterized and illustrated using light and scanning electron microscopy. Bayesian inference (BI) and Maximum Likelihood (ML) phylogenetic trees for these genetic markers established relationships that highlight the importance of using molecular and phylogenetic data for accurate species identification within the genus Hexametra. Phylogenetic trees indicated that the Spanish isolates of H. angusticaecoides were clustered in a well-supported clade together with other isolates from Central Europe of the same species. Molecular phylogenetic findings also reflect that there was a higher intraspecific variation for ITS genetic markers at the intraspecific level. Phylogenetic results based on 28S rRNA suggest that Ascarididea was divided into three monophyletic major clades. To our knowledge, this is the first report of this species parasitizing bearded dragons, extending the host range of this species. These findings represent the first formal record of H. angusticaecoides in Spain.</p>","PeriodicalId":54436,"journal":{"name":"Systematic Parasitology","volume":"102 1","pages":"6"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142669787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lydia Aftisse, Samira Merabet, Adem Keskin, Dmitry A Apanaskevich
{"title":"Description of a new species of Ixodes Latreille, 1795 (Acari: Ixodidae), a parasite of rodents (Rodentia: Muridae) in Algeria.","authors":"Lydia Aftisse, Samira Merabet, Adem Keskin, Dmitry A Apanaskevich","doi":"10.1007/s11230-024-10197-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-024-10197-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ixodes algericus n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae) is described based on females, nymphs and larvae ex rodents (Rodentia: Muridae) from Algeria. Females of this new species possess a unique set of morphological characters allowing identification of this species from any other Ixodes Latreille, 1795 species. These characters include the lack of genital apron, length of auriculae, development of syncoxae and length of spurs on coxa I. The nymph and larva of I. algericus n. sp. can be distinguished from the potentially sympatric Ixodes s. str. species by the shape of the scutum, number of alloscutal setae, length of auriculae and shape of the hypostome.</p>","PeriodicalId":54436,"journal":{"name":"Systematic Parasitology","volume":"102 1","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142649735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephen S Curran, Peter D Olson, Stephen A Bullard
{"title":"Diplomonorchis fallax n. sp. (Digenea: Monorchiidae) from the northern Gulf of Mexico with evaluation of sympatric congeners.","authors":"Stephen S Curran, Peter D Olson, Stephen A Bullard","doi":"10.1007/s11230-024-10196-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11230-024-10196-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diplomonorchis micropogoni Nahhas & Cable, 1964 was considered a junior subjective synonym of Diplomonorchis leiostomi Hopkins, 1941 in 1969. Diplomonorchis leiostomi has since been widely reported from the coastal Western Atlantic between Delaware Bay and southern Brazil. Until now, taxonomically verifiable DNA sequence data for D. leiostomi has been available from an individual worm collected from the northern Gulf of Mexico. We generated a partial sequence of the 28S rRNA gene from D. leiostomi from the spot croaker, Leiostomus xanthurus Lacepède (type-host) from Beaufort, North Carolina, USA (type-locality) that differed at 31 of 1,246 bases from the available 28S sequence. This prompted a reevaluation of Diplomonorchis spp. identities from the northern Gulf of Mexico. We found D. leiostomi and D. micropogoni distinguishable by testes shape and size, and to a lesser degree by relative caecal length. Museum specimens of D. leiostomi, identified from the Gulf of Mexico represent a species complex containing D. leiostomi, D. cf. micropogoni and, a new species of Diplomonorchis. The sequences previously identified as D. leiostomi in GenBank (AY222137 & AY222252) are herein identified as D. cf. micropogoni. The new species is described from newly collected material herein. Phylogenetic analysis of 28S rRNA sequences from the species complex plus 46 species from the Monorchioidea Odhner, 1911 indicated all three Diplomonorchis spp. are closely related and form a clade with some species of Lasiotocus Looss, 1907. With the addition of the new species, and acceptance of D. micropogoni, there are currently 14 valid species in Diplomonorchis.</p>","PeriodicalId":54436,"journal":{"name":"Systematic Parasitology","volume":"102 1","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11564255/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142632485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of hymenolepidids associated with the tribe Sudarikovinini Spassky, 1991 (Eucestoda, Hymenolepididae), with descriptions of two unrecognized species from the Shaw's jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) shawi (Duvernoy) (Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae) from Northern Africa.","authors":"Arseny A Makarikov","doi":"10.1007/s11230-024-10199-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-024-10199-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The taxonomic position of the hymenolepidid cestode genera Paraoligorchis Wason et Johnson, 1977 and Sudarikovina Spassky, 1951 from gerbils and ground squirrels from Africa, Southwest Asia and South Asia is clarified based on re-examination of type and voucher materials. The generic diagnosis of Sudarikovina is amended. The main corrections for diagnostic characters at the generic level include: irregularly-spaced transverse anastomoses of ventral osmoregulatory canals; presence of both specimens with dextral genital pores and specimens with sinistral genital pores; vagina clearly covered externally by a dense layer of intensely-stained cells; young uterus reticulate and fully-developed uterus with a labyrinthine structure. The previously proposed generic character of a minimum number of testes per proglottis of species of Sudarikovina is reduced to 3. The genus Paraoligorchis is recognized as a junior synonym of Sudarikovina. For the type species of Paraoligorchis, P. taterae Wason et Johnson, 1977, the replacement name Sudarikovina wasojohni nom. nov. is proposed, thus resolving the secondary homonymy of the transferred species and its senior homonym S. taterae Hunkeler, 1972. The validity of the tribe Sudarikovinini sensu Spassky (1991), to which Paraoligorchis and Sudarikovina had been attributed, cannot be resolved due the lack of molecular data. The cestode specimens from Shaw's jird, Meriones (Pallasiomys) shawi (Duvernoy) from Algeria and Tunisia, initially designated as Hymenolepis sp. by Joyeux (1923) and Hymenolepis procera Janicki, 1904 by Joyeux & Foley (1930), represent undescribed species of Sudarikovina, which are described in this study as Sudarikovina pentatesticulata sp. n. and S. tetratesticulata sp. n., respectively. The main diagnostic characters of the two new species, which distinguish them from their congeners, are the number and the size of the testes.</p>","PeriodicalId":54436,"journal":{"name":"Systematic Parasitology","volume":"102 1","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142632490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First report of Heterakis pedioecetes Mawson, 1956 (Ascaridomorpha: Heterakoidea) and Synhimantus (Dispharynx) nasuta (Rudolphi, 1819) (Spiruromorpha: Acuarioidea) from the Indo-Chinese green peafowl Pavo muticus imperator (Galliformes: Phasianidae).","authors":"Lin-Wei Li, Xiao-Hong Gu, Hui-Xia Chen, Liang Li","doi":"10.1007/s11230-024-10203-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-024-10203-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Indo-Chinese green peafowl Pavo muticus imperator (Galliformes: Phasianidae) is an endangered bird species. However, our present knowledge of the species composition of nematode parasites of this bird remains limited. In the present study, two nematode parasites Heterakis pedioecetes Mawson, 1956 (Ascaridomorpha: Heterakoidea) and Synhimantus (Dispharynx) nasuta (Rudolphi, 1819) (Spiruromorpha: Acuarioidea) were reported from P. muticus imperator for the first time. The detailed morphology of these two nematode species was further studied using light and scanning electron microscopy, and some previously unreported morphological features were revealed. These supplementary morphological and morphometric data contributed to a more accurate identification of these two common avian nematodes.</p>","PeriodicalId":54436,"journal":{"name":"Systematic Parasitology","volume":"102 1","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142632488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}